J oint Stars 2017. The biggest inter-armed exercise of the Armed Forces ends

(To Greater Defense)
27/10/17

"The new operational requirements impose a full inter-force capacity that must necessarily be acquired with training activities that always involve all the components of the National Military Instrument, as it was for the Joint Stars" said General Claudio Graziano, Chief of Staff of the Defense, at the conclusion of the Joint Stars, the biggest national Interforze exercise of the year, which involved forces of the Army, Navy and Air Force throughout the country. 

The Joint Stars 2017 (JS17) is a training activity organized by the Joint Operations Command (COI) and consists of a network of exercises, federated with each other and conducted between June and October in Sicily, Sardinia and Italy of the center-south, which refer to a single fictitious scenario of a crisis context. A NATO component also took part in the exercise with assets dedicated to training in electronic warfare, including those for disturbing radar sensors and communications. The interoperability and coordination of the procedures of the various components of each Armed Force were the main objectives of the JS17, but the most important one was certainly to test and validate the initial operation of the National Projection Screening Capacity, that is the Italian amphibious military forces. 

The Italian Army, the Navy and the Air Force trained jointly, deploying a total of more than 3.600 soldiers with the aim of pursuing synergies and economies, sharing resources and maximizing interoperability, refining their skills within simulated missions that they could occur in the context of international crises or national emergencies. Operations were planned and conducted for the evacuation of civilian personnel present in the areas of military operations, as well as the conduct of operations involving the insertion of a terrestrial component from the sea into a hostile environment. The heart of this terrestrial component is represented by the "Serenissima" lagoon regiment of the Italian Army and the "San Marco" regiment of the Navy, which are able to activate all functions "Fighting","Combat Support" is "Combat Service Support", thanks to the integration of the existing capacities within the National Military Instrument, the Aeronautica Militare, which for the first time also used F35A aircraft, guaranteed instead the air support with operations of Close Air Support (CAS)Suppression of Enemy Air Defense (SEAD), Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR), tactical transport of operating personnel and evacuation of injured civilians.

Among the Army departments participating in the exercise, the Artillery Contraerei command, Brigate Pozzuolo del Friuli, the lagoon regiment "Serenissima", the 3 ° regiment genius destroyers, the 17 ° anti-artillery regiment "Sforzesca", artillery regiment horse ", the 4 ° regiment" Genoa Cavalry "and the 5 ° aviation regiment of the" Rigel "Army. For the Navy, the aircraft carrier Garibaldi, two landing ships, the Saint Mark , St. George, the hunters Viareggio e Milazzo, the submarine Longobardo, the team replenisher Vesuviothe destroyer Duilio, the frigate Alpine and Coastal Transport (MTC) Lipari. For the Air Force, the 46 ^ air brigade of Pisa took part with the C-130 and C-27J aircraft, the 4 ^ telecommunications brigade and air defense systems, the 6 ° flock of Ghedi with the Tornado IDS e ECR, the 4 ° flock of Grosseto and the 37 ° flock with the Euro Fighter, the 51 ° Flock of Istrana with the AMX, the 61 ° flock of Galatina with i T-346, the 14 ° storm of Sea Practice with the tanker KC 767 and with the CAEW, the 32 ° flock of Amendola with the remote pilot aircraft MQ-9 Predator B, the 15 ° Flock of Cervia with HH-101, HH-139 and HH-212 helicopters. Will also be involved, 16 ° flock Airship Rifles of Martina Franca, the mobile command and control department of Bari Palese, the ReGISCC of Pratica di Mare, the 22 ° GRAM of Licola and the bases of the 41 ° flock of Sigonella and the RSSTA of Decimomannu.